Are EA servers down? Status explained as users report issues with FIFA 23, Apex Legends and Battlefield

Players across a variety of games have reported issues with the EA servers
Rhona Shennan
By Rhona Shennan
14th Mar 2023, 2:35pm
EA appears to be having issues as players struggle with games (Photo: Adobe Stock/CassianoCorreia)EA appears to be having issues as players struggle with games (Photo: Adobe Stock/CassianoCorreia)
EA appears to be having issues as players struggle with games (Photo: Adobe Stock/CassianoCorreia)

Gamers are experiencing problems accessing FIFA 23 and other video games through the EA servers today (4 May).

According to Down Detector, reports of issues with EA started rolling in at around 10.12 am UK time. In regards to the issues being experienced, 36% of reports had to do with the server connection, 61% with login issues and 3% to do with game play.

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Down Detector also showed a similar story in regards to EA games, like Apex Legends, Battlefield and FIFA.

Why aren’t EA servers working?

According to the EA Help Twitter account, the only indication that this outage has been planned is a retweet from the Madden NFL Direct account, which said: "Server maintenance is scheduled for 6:00 AM ET tomorrow, Thurday May 4th. Solo Battles will be gated at 5:40 AM ET. Please complete all games before maintenance begins."

In response to the outage, players have expressed their frustrations on Twitter.

One person wrote: "Somethings happening on FIFA [right now], got kicked out mid match, signed back in, was loading into a new match for two minutes, got kicked again, now I can't connect to EA servers. THE STATE OF IT MAN"

Another tweeted: "Absolutely love that I can't play a single player game because the EA servers are down"

"Weekly EA f**k up with servers, same s**t with Apex and no communication," wrote another.

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